Welcome to your teaching, learning and assessment page for 2023/2024.  We will keep you up to date with the latest news and information to support you delivering BTEC, BTEC Tech Award and T level qualifications.

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Preparing for BTEC results days

This year, we will be continuing to deliver BTEC level 2 and level 3 results under a longer embargo, giving you additional time to check the completeness of results. We received feedback from colleges and schools that this extra time was invaluable last year.

Qualifications that are 100% internally assessed or are not awaiting an external assessment result from summer 2024 are not embargoed and can be released at the discretion of centres.

There are many other Level 2 and 3 vocational qualifications that fall outside of this therefore and you must ensure that all relevant grades and claims are input for all learners expecting results for any Pearson vocational qualification, as you would normally.

View our results day embargo timeline

 

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BTEC key dates timeline and what to expect in 2023/24

Our key dates timeline has been designed to ensure results are delivered successfully to all learners in August 2024. Following feedback from colleges and schools, we have made some changes to our key dates to make the process easier for you to manage.  

Read our new BTEC key dates for 2023/24

We’ve also made several improvements to the processes and delivery of BTEC results in summer 2024. You can read a summary of our findings, along with the improvements we’ll be making for 2024 in the key dates document. 

FAQs | Understanding BTEC results
Who can access results over the embargo?

Only exams officers, heads of centres and senior teaching staff should have access to learners’ results on the earlier embargoed results day. You should ensure that your Edexcel Online accounts have the correct permissions ahead of results day, with the “results” profile ticked only for these roles.

Read our guide to updating Edexcel Online profiles

Can I share learner results with higher education institutions, such as universities before learner results day?

No, you shouldn’t share learner results with any other institutions during the embargo.

What checks should we conduct during the embargo?

You should use this time to check the completeness of your results. We’d recommend that you:

  • Log in to the VQ Learner Tracker to check if you have any outstanding actions. If you’ve not used this before, you can access our VQ Learner Tracker interactive guide.
  • Access your results through your EDI file or Edexcel Online to check the completeness of your results. Read more about accessing your results.
  • Check for any contact from Pearson. If any of your BTEC claims aren’t eligible, our completing learners team will have emailed you to let you know why.
  • Contact us for any help. We’re here over August to help you with any outstanding actions that need resolving ahead of learner results day.   

 

Which results and supporting documents are available, and when?

7 August – BTEC Level 3 Nationals - results to centres under embargo

7 August – BTEC Level 3 Nationals - grade boundaries uploaded to Exams Officer, Exams Assistants, Exams Managers and Head of Centre Edexcel Online mailboxes

14 August – BTEC Level 3 Nationals - Lead Examiner reports and mark schemes available on our website under gold padlock

16 August – BTEC Level 2 Firsts, Technicals, Tech Awards (2016), Tech Awards (2022) -  results to centres under embargo

16 August – BTEC Level 2 Firsts, Technicals, Tech Awards (2016), Tech Awards (2022) - grade boundaries uploaded to Exams Officer, Exams Assistants, Exams Managers and Head of Centre Edexcel Online mailboxes

15 August – BTEC Level 3 Nationals - results released to learners

15 August – BTEC Level 3 Nationals - Grade boundaries and lead examiner reports available on our website under silver padlock

15 August – BTEC Level 3 Nationals - Post results services available

21 August - BTEC Level 2 Firsts, Technicals, Tech Awards - Lead Examiner reports and mark schemes available on our website under gold padlock

22 August – BTEC Level 2 Firsts, Technicals, Tech Awards (2016) - results released to learners

22 August – BTEC Level 2 Firsts, Technicals, Tech Awards (2016) - Post results services available

What support and training are available ahead of results days?

You can book on to our getting ready for results webinar, which will be our final session before results are issued in August. We’ll be walking you through receiving and understanding results and post results. 

5 August 11 a.m. | Preparing for BTEC results day | Book your place

 If you can’t join us, you can watch a recorded webinar on the Pearson Development Hub.  We also have a library of results related support articles in our knowledgebase for you to explore. We’d recommend starting with our full index that covers all topics related to the administration of results.  

Access our exams officer results day 2024 essential index 

Where can I find information about how the BTEC Tech Awards are awarded and graded?

You can find out more about how BTEC Tech Awards are awarded and graded, and the similarities and difference between the reformed and legacy qualification at our understanding BTEC Tech Awards results page.

FAQs | delivering vocational qualifications in 2024
BTEC 5 July claiming deadline 2023/24

5 July is your deadline to make full award claims, including inputting all internal grades, for learners expecting a result following the release of May/June 2024 external assessment results. All outstanding actions should also be completed by 5 July.

We are unable to guarantee learners will receive a qualification result on learner results days if qualification claims or internal assessment grades are provided after 5 July. If we do receive qualification claims or internal grades for learners after the 5 July deadline, Pearson reserves the right to charge centres £100 for each of these learners that receives a result on learner results days.

Read our full BTEC 5 July claiming FAQs
VQ Learner Tracker

This year you will be using the VQ Learner Tracker, a new module in the Pearson Progress Platform, to help you manage your BTEC summer cohort. Here you’ll be able to identify learner registrations that require any action so you can meet the 5 July claiming deadline. If you’ve not yet explored the VQ Learner Tracker, we’d encourage you to familiarise yourself ahead of the deadline.

You can read our quick guide to getting started

What can I expect to see on the VQ Learner Tracker now?

View a regularly updated complete view of all active registered learners, viewed onscreen or as a shareable data download.

Identify learners with risks to receiving results such as a missing a cash-in (BTEC Tech Award) or assessment entry. 

Arrange and filter information by UCAS applicants, qualification, completion dates, and other criteria to understand cohort information and prioritise tasks.

View any remaining centre actions needed ahead of results day to ensure we have all the information we need to award results in August.